Her Predictions and Views

#32: "Again, Mrs. White foretold in
Early Writings that she would be among the
living saints when Jesus
returned. 'Soon our eyes were drawn to the East, for a small black cloud had appeared,
about half as large
as a man's hand, which we all knew was the sign of the Son of Man... the graves opened...
and in the same
moment we were changed and caught up together with them to meet the Lord in the air.' The
Day-Star
January 24, 1846. Mrs. White was not among the living saints seen in her vision. This event
did not occur
in her lifetime. We are still looking for the glorious return of our Lord Jesus Christ. Rather
than being
caught up with the living saints at Jesus's return, Mrs. White died on July 16, 1915, and was
buried beside
her husband James. Another one of her prophecies failed."—Sydney
Cleveland.

#32: She said she would be among the living saints. She
never said that. Moreover, this charge destroys the credibility of the
Scriptures, for it in essence declares the apostle Paul to be a false prophet.

The reader will notice that this quotation from Mrs. White is very close in wording to
1 Thessalonians 4:16, 17, where Paul says essentially
the same thing:

For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout, with
the voice of the archangel, and with the trump of God: and the
dead in
Christ shall rise first: Then we which are alive and remain shall be
caught up together with them in the clouds, to meet the Lord in the
air:
and so shall we ever be with the Lord.

Some portions of the quotation from The Day-Star that the video left
out make the parallels with 1 Thessalonians 4 even more striking:

Then Jesus' silver trumpet sounded, as he descended
on the cloud . . . . The graves opened, and the dead
came up clothed with
immortality. . . . and in the same moment we were changed and
caught up together with them to meet the Lord in the air.—italics
added.

If Paul can say, "We which are alive and remain shall be caught up," and not be a
false prophet, then Mrs. White can too.

In the Bible, God chose to reveal events in vision to a prophet as if he were alive at
the time the events were taking place, and sometimes
as if he were even participating in those events. The book of Revelation gives a number of
examples of this phenomenon. Thus, a prophet who
saw future events in vision as if he were participating in those events is not necessarily a
false prophet.